We're starting to get a little deeper into awards season, and we're increasingly seeing studios bring out the big guns. Enter Amazon Studios with Manchester by the Sea. Incredibly lucky to have won the bidding on writer-director Kenneth Lonergan's latest feature instead of Nate Parker's directorial debut The Birth of a Nation at the Su...

I've just about covered all the films in the mix this awards season, excluding The Revenant and 45 Years. Throughout this year’s litany of films, I've mentioned that there was an uptick in the number of adaptations, and I still believe this holds true. The Danish Girl, The Big Short, and Concussion have all continued this trend over the last couple of weeks. Now, we have yet ano...

I've always believed that the Academy is too stuffy for its own good. Mostly comprised of old white men, it doesn't exactly embrace the cutting edge films of the day. You can look to Steve McQueen and Michael Fassbender getting ignored for their great work in Shame two years ago. You can loo...Continue reading ...

The summer of coming-of-age movies is coming to a close. Before we say adios, I'd just like to say that it's been a fun ride. With films like Mud, The Kings of Summer, and The Way, Way Back, we simply haven't gone wrong. The closer for this summer is James Ponsoldt's The Spectacular Now, a daring comedy-drama that puts a new me...Continue reading ...

January must be trash collection month at the box office because Hollywood keeps dumping crap onto the big screen. Our latest junk film is Broken City, a crime drama starring Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe, and Catherine Zeta-Jones. If released any other time of the year, it's something that would have been considered a worthwhi...

History seems to be the predominant story of this awards season. It's the history of our sixteenth president and his fight to pass the Thirteenth Amendment in Lincoln. It's the history of six American diplomats making a fake movie to escape Iran in Argo. It's the history o...